Adolf Brock
Adolf Brock (born August 24, 1932 in Geseke / Westphalia ) is a German trade unionist and theoretician of workers' education .
biography
From 1947 to 1950 Adolf Brock learned the trade of wheelwright and then exercised various commercial activities until 1964: construction worker, carpenter, crane driver, trained electrician, ironworker. Since 1964 he has been active in various functions in workers' and popular education. Among other things, he was a lecturer at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Hanover (from 1974 to 1987) and from 1986 lecturer at the Academy for Work and Politics at the University of Bremen .
Awards
On July 10, 2009, the Faculty of Education, Psychology and Movement Science at the University of Hamburg awarded Adolf Brock an honorary doctorate for his services to adult education and trade union education.
Fonts (selection)
- Apprentice lexicon (edited with Lutz Dietze), Baden-Baden: Signal-Verlag, 1977, ISBN 3-7971-0166-X
- Workers education. Sociological fantasy and exemplary learning in theory, criticism and practice , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1978, ISBN 3-499-17250-X
- Representation of the interests of employees in the company , Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1976, ISBN 3-434-10036-9
- Human dignity in the world of work , Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1975, ISBN 3-434-10077-6
- Education - knowledge - practice. Contributions to workers' education as political education (as publisher), Cologne: Bund-Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-7663-2199-4 .
literature
- Oskar Negt : Insubordinate contemporaries. Approaches and memories , Frankfurt am Main 1994 (here also source)
- The difficult road to worker emancipation . Festschrift for Adolf Brock by Wolfgang Hindrichs and Oskar Negt (1992)
Web links
- Literature by and about Adolf Brock in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Honorary doctorate for Adolf Brock (University of Hamburg) ( Memento from November 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Brock, Adolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade unionist and a theorist of workers' education |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1932 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Geseke |